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    What Makes Us Lucid Dream?

    One question for Péter Simor, a psychologist at Eötvös Loránd University. The post What Makes Us Lucid Dream? appeared first on Nautilus.
    by Brian Gallagher Oct 31, 2022 2 minutes

    One question for Péter Simor, a psychologist who directs the Budapest Laboratory of Sleep & Cognition at Eötvös Loránd University in Hungary.

    Photo courtesy of Péter Simor

    What makes us lucid dream?

    ucid dreaming is quite peculiar. We become aware that we are dreaming. In normal dreaming, we lack this reflective capacity. Lucid dreamers report that these experiences are extremely vivid, fantastic, and perceptually immersive, like virtual reality. In our, we wanted to explain these differences in a model using the predictive coding framework. The main idea is that the .

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